Discovery of a specialist Copelatinae fauna on Madagascar: highly ephemeral tropical forest floor depressions as an overlooked habitat for diving beetles (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae)
Diving beetles are generally aquatic and live submerged in water during larval and adult stages. A few groups have colonised hygropetric habitats and fewer species still can possibly be referred to as terrestrial. Here we describe six new Copelatine species that were mainly found i...
Main Authors: | Tolotra Ranarilalatiana, Johannes Bergsten |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Pensoft Publishers
2019-08-01
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Series: | ZooKeys |
Online Access: | https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/36337/download/pdf/ |
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